The Tokyo Olympics would be on now, but they’re not. I’m sad but I also know that during the Olympics I actually just watch television. That is something I can still do. In honour of this non-Olympic fortnight I’ve compiled some ideas for how to make screen time more like Olympics time. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie… Read Post »
A poem inspired by the Women’s Weekly Birthday Cake Book This clock we’re putting on the list. Not that clock because I had that cake before. Yes the moon cake. Maybe the cat cake. Not the gingerbread cake. Yes let’s put Humpty Dumpty on the list. Piggy cake – put that on the list. Maybe… Read Post »
I’m finishing my last assignment for the semester and trying to cut out words. I thought I’d share some of my top tips for getting a document under the word limit. In order to can always be shortened to ‘to’.You can almost always just delete the word ‘just’.Words like ‘very’, ‘completely’ and ‘indubitably’ can very… Read Post »
About ten years ago on Christmas afternoon some some friends of my dad popped in for a visit. They sat at the kitchen table chatting while I made hot drinks. Then one of them opined that ‘all this climate change stuff is crap’. I said it wasn’t and we had a low-quality ‘debate’ about it.… Read Post »
During the 2016 US election I started listening to American politics podcasts. For some reason, even though these podcasters betrayed me by failing to predict the impending doom of their own nation, I have kept listening to them, hoping they might improve. As a result I am taking an interest in the Democratic primaries. Whoever… Read Post »
Netballstrology Are you wondering what will happen to you this year? How exciting. Read below to find out through the power of netballstrology. (If you’re not sure what your netball position is, you’re a Wing Defence.) Do you sometimes feel like you work twice as hard as your colleagues for the same share of glory?… Read Post »
I’ve never been in an impro troupe but apparently one of the first rules is that you never block a suggestion, you say ‘Yes, and.’ This means that you add to ideas rather than tearing them down. Usually, this doesn’t appeal to me, but I’m starting to think it might have useful applications in every… Read Post »
When I read back my old diaries, I’m struck by how obvious the answers to my supposed ‘dilemmas’ were. Using this magic of hindsight I’ve written responses to my problems, agony aunt style. April 2001 Someone in my university class is very tactless. She mocked packed lunches to my face and said they were ‘disgusting’.… Read Post »
Melbourne spring rebellion 2019 When I was in Grade 4 my class did a project on the suffragettes. At first, my friends and I were not impressed. ‘What even are the suffragettes?’ we said. Half an hour later we loved the suffragettes! We couldn’t believe women weren’t allowed to vote. We thought the hunger-strikes were… Read Post »
All social media posts can be viewed as a gambit for attention and validation, but some are more explicit than others. Sometimes, when people are feeling low they ask their social media friends or followers for some kind words to get them through. I think this can be a very nice thing, but I don’t… Read Post »